Christopher Ventris

{{Short description|British tenor (born 1965)}}

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Christopher Ventris, is a British tenor. He is particularly known for his role as Parsifal which he has performed over 100 times including performances at the Bayreuth Festival during the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Festival seasons.{{Cite web |url=http://auffuehrungsdatenbank.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb_en/personen/14634/index.htm |title=Bayreuther Festspiele » English » Programme » Performance Database » Person |access-date=2018-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304055233/http://auffuehrungsdatenbank.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb_en/personen/14634/index.htm |archive-date=2018-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

Ventris studied at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Joy Mammen. He appeared there in the title-role of Orpheus in the Underworld, where one critic, though commenting that "North-country speech and standard pronunciation in song do not go well together in operetta", otherwise found "Ventris was a true-voiced and likeable Orpheus".Arthur Jacobs. School Performances : Orpheus in the Underworld, Royal Academy of Music, November 29. Opera, February 1985, Vol.30, No.2, p245-6.

After college he joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera winning the GTO Singers and John Christie awards. He went on to sing with other British companies, including Opera North and English National Opera. He sang the part of Robert Lonle in the first performance of Robert Saxton's Caritas and the combined role of Walter, Hugo and the old woman in the first performance of Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert. He was the 2007 recipient of the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year Award, presented annually by Dallas Opera to the singer who makes the biggest impact on voting patrons in his or her company debut, for the role of Lohengrin.Matthew Westphal, [http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6556.html Tenor Christopher Ventris Wins 2007 Maria Callas Award from Dallas Opera], Playbill Arts, 25 May 2007

Ventris' engagements{{Cite web |url=http://www.artistsman.com/home/artist_list/tenor/christopher-ventris/ |title=Schedule on Artist Management Zurich |access-date=2008-07-08 |archive-date=2017-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407022844/http://www.artistsman.com/home/artist_list/tenor/christopher-ventris/ |url-status=dead }} include productions at the Vienna State Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Royal Opera, London, the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, La Fenice, Venice, La Scala, Milan, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva and the Bavarian State Opera.